Professor Matthew Ogilvie

Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for economics for his work on famine, observed that famine does not occur where there is representative democracy and a free press. I argue that, by promoting free speech, Elon Musk is helping to attack the real causes of famine: information poverty and lack of representation. To read more, click here " Can Elon Musk solve world hunger? " https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/07/can-elon-musk-solve-world-hunger/

"Last year’s “Voice” debate brought into sharp focus the difference between Labor’s ideology and liberal philosophy. Liberalism embraces a few big ideas and lets the ideas’ natural power improve society from the ground up. Labor’s approach is to promote myriad small solutions from the top down, applying them with a paternalist mindset that tries to bend nature to fit Labor’s ideology. This mindset led to the fatally flawed “Voice,” which was a national top-down solution to issues that are fundamentally local."   To read more, please see pages 21-22 of  "The Contributor, A Journal of articles published by the Policy Committee of the Liberal Party of Australia (WA Division)"   https://www.contributor.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/The-Contributor_6th-Edition_2024_Compress.pdf